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To: JEFF K who wrote (37938)	12/24/1998 12:13:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 50808

DTV in Asia. The sidelinks have more.......................... asiansources.com Digital TV Posted: Dec. 10, 1998 First DTV broadcasts herald new era for video resellers The years of discussion and speculation about the introduction of digital television (DTV) appear to be over. Hardware problems have been ironed out, regulatory issues resolved, and the first DTV transmissions aired. Fifteen years after CDs turned the audio industry around, video is set to reap the benefits of its own digital revolution. Some uncertainty remains — what sort of programming will we see? How will broadcasters use the datacasting capabilities of DTV? — but one beguiling fact alone should excite all resellers: Within seven years, all of the 100 million TV sets installed in the United States could be obsolete. By 2006, every viewer in the US market is expected to upgrade his television with a set-top box to convert the broadcast digital signal to analog, or simply discard and replace his current TV. Something similar is true worldwide. The first digital broadcast in the United States was by six Public Broadcasting Service stations on November 10, 1998. Approximately 40 other stations began digital broadcasting in the same month. In Britain, where analog broadcasts are expected to end within 10 years, the Sky satellite service started digital transmissions on October 1, and the world's first terrestrial service, ONdigital, launched on November 15. Pace Micro Technologies plc, a pioneer in digital converters, forecast sales of its set-top boxes to Sky subscribers alone to reach 300,000 units within six months. If any doubts remain that digital will supersede analog TV — and rapidly — consider this: mainland China began HDTV testing in 1994, with a satellite test on August 27, 1997, and a terrestrial broadcast on September 1998. The decision to go digital has in essence been made; at the time of writing whether to go with the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) or the European Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) standard was still under debate.